“Once you hear the word cancer, the first thing you think about is the fear of dying,” said Forrest.

But first, back up about a month.

The only reason Forrest and his doctors found out he had cancer? A chance suggestion from his wife, who knew it had been a while since her husband had gotten checked out.

“I said you should go to the doctor, and he was like you’re right,” said Renea Forrest.

She was.

Based on his symptoms, Forrest and his doctors believe he’d had cancer since April 2018- 19 months before it was discovered.

Forrest estimates he hadn’t had a physical in six or seven years. Basketball had taken most of that time. But in November, he wasn’t a coach. He had just left a job with SMU that summer.

“If I had still been working and doing some things, I wouldn’t have went to the doctor," Forrest admits. "It was just one of those situations. God just knew it was time.”

Forrest had successful surgery to remove the cancer. According to his doctor, that was just in time too.

“The cancer was growing toward my bladder," Forrest explains. "He said six or seven more months, and he didn’t know if would’ve been able to help me.”

I’m a bigger believer in faith sometimes we don’t understand why things happen and why God does what he does. God’s plans are always better than ours and we just have to trust His plan no matter how difficult or hard it may seem. As a black male we are taught

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Jake had a pretty good person to look up to. His father, Jim, has spent over 40 years in the TV business as an award-winning sports and news anchor in Georgia. Jake studied multimedia communications at Georgia Southern University, and his time in Statesboro confirmed his desire to chase his sports broadcasting dreams.

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